1960... better living in spite of radiation!

... as it turns out this is an informative book about the effects of radiation and a helpful guide on how to be a good housewife and protect your family and keep them healthy after an atomic war!

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1959 ... the core of all matter!

1953 ... peaceful use of the Atom!

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1958 ... ma Bell fights the Cold War!

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1954 ... R3Y 'Tradewind'

... Sub Time!

... I had been musing about how the Air Force boys and their sexy airplanes get way too much air-time on this blog. So here is some of my own illustration work to the rescue! Dummied up as ads for General Dynamics. Here's a subject where illustration still reigns supreme. Frankly, it's just too dark and uncomfortable down there to take very good photos. Though it would be cool to use a bunch of drone submersibles for lighting... hey, that's a good idea for another illustration!

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1960 .... Project Rombus - Ithacus!

... I vaguely recalled these hair-raising illustrations from my childhood (it was fun to find them again)! These are proposals, by the aerospace giant McDonnell-Douglas, for a giant rocket that could transport  hundreds of troops anywhere in the world within an hour! These are the super-duper cold War dreams of a world where we can imagine Barry Goldwater beat LBJ for the Presidency in 1964. Ah yes- a vast technological Americana Pax empire. Either that or a radioactive wasteland! "Better dead than Red!"

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... Military on the Moon!

... during the 1950's and the early 60's outer-space was seen as the 'high-ground' of the Cold War. Countless chilling scenarios, projects and programs were thrown around. Today much of it seems far-fetched and just plain unnecessary. It was indeed fortunate that treaties were signed in the early 1960's that kept nuclear weapons out of space and leaned funding mainly toward civilian science and exploration.